Authors:

Gustav Borstad(Department of Physics, Washington State University and Institute for Shock Physics)

Choong-Shik Yoo(Department of Chemistry, Washington State University and Institute for Shock Physics)

Binary mixtures under pressure are of interest as fundamental systems in
physics and chemistry as they allow the effects of the environment on the
behavior of different chemical compounds to be examined. Furthermore,
mixtures of simple molecular systems are of interest for applications in
fuel cells and also to planetary science due to their presence in the
interiors of the giant gas planets. In this presentation, Raman data on the
ammonia and hydrogen system under pressure will be presented, and the extent
and nature of the interactions in this mixture will be discussed.

*The work has been supported by NSF (DMR-0854618 and DMR-1203834); GB was also supported by the ISP scholarship at WSU.

To cite this abstract, use the following reference: http://meetings.aps.org/link/BAPS.2013.MAR.F39.3